the third reviewer. always, the third reviewer…

throwing guitars

Via Upgrade: Travel Better comes this nice little story of revenge on airlines.

apparently not

it works

So it seems that the wordpress app for iPhone actually works. Wonder if this will lead to an increase in blogging?

fewtrils

The curmudgeon is on top form.

schadenfreude

50 million people do it every week

That’s the tag line for a documentary about the New York Times crossword puzzle, that I just watched. Wordplay is truly an entertaining film. The people who are really, really good at crosswords are, to say the least, characters (check out the bios in the “players” section of the film site). The people who write them are very talented. I’ve never been very good at them but Ricardo has some impressive talent when it comes to solving the cryptics.

And if you think you’re good at the crossword, try your luck here.

…

Ricardo’s 123 has me stumped. But, in my defense, I didn’t cheat by googling. How about:

‘You’re out of the dyslexia, your father says.’

‘I think so.’

‘Good.’ 

This is from a book I’ve been reading for some time. A book that Ricardo read some time ago.  

123

Meme, via:

1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

I’ll bend the rules a bit. I have 5 books on my bedside table at the moment, all started. This is not my normal style, at least not since I was about 7 years old and vaguely hyperlexic. Anyway, here are the extracts from each; perhaps either of this blog’s readers can identify the books.

“Sometimes I see flashes of Rick’s temper in him or hear him say something sexist that I know comes right out of Rick’s mouth, and I get scared. I don’t want him looking at Rick and thinking that this is what a man is supposed to act like. I wish I could protect him from ending up like his father.”

If the fact that he himself had assured the scholar of the same thing several months ago was irritating to Apollo, his expression gave no hint of it. “Yes,” he said. “They’re quite authentic, I’m told.”

That left the hive in a near-comatose condition. It was a harsh and imprecise process. Sometimes, the skep had to be ripped open in order to collect the product.

Cohen testified that there was no “direct relationship” linking heart disease to dietary fats, and that he had been able to induce the same blood-vessel complications seen in heart disease merely by feeding sugar to his laboratory rats. Peter Cleave testified to his belief that the problem extended to all refined carbohydrates. “I don’t hold the cholesterol view for a moment,” Cleave said, noting that mankind had been eating saturated fats for hundreds of thousands of years.

Blair’s EU initiatives in this period, all of which were to evolve later in his premiership, came at four successive European Councils. By late 2001, Blair was in his fith year as a regular attendee of these two-day meetings for EU leaders. They occurred four times a year (June and December councils at the end of presidencies were more important) and he had grown weary of them.

I guess the last one’s a bit easy.

unfortunately, he also inherited their thirst

I was saddened when I first heard Wesley Snipes was being done for tax evasion. I liked Wesley. He’s been in some excellent films. I love the Blade trinity. I was disappointed. I thought he was better than that. I tried to ignore the story.

And then I find out that he wasn’t evading taxes – he was denying them.

Wesley, I should never have doubted you.